Snoopy Presents: To Mom (and Dad), With Love is the Peanuts Mother's Day TV special and the forty-eighth Peanuts TV special based on the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. It began streaming on Apple TV+ on May 6, 2022. A Mother's Day special, it mainly focuses on Peppermint Patty, who struggles with the coming of Mother's Day as it reminds her that she never had a mother.
Plot summary
Mother's Day is fast approaching, and with it the Peanuts gang start making plans on how to celebrate their mothers. All except for Peppermint Patty, who has always felt ambivalence to the holiday due to not having a mother. She opens up to Marcie about this, noting all the activities her friends associate with mothers are things she did with her father. This gives her the idea to celebrate her dad by giving him a Mother's Day gift, but struggles to find a Mother's Day card specifically for fathers. She and Marcie venture around town looking for gifts, but none satisfy Peppermint Patty.
Linus tries to write a letter to his mother to show his appreciation, but struggles to find the right words. Lucy tries to make a watercolor painting, but does not like the results so she decides to make her an arts and craft crown. Charlie Brown and Sally brainstorm things to give their mother. Charlie Brown suggests making breakfast in bed, but as usual their test run proves less than successful, resulting in numerous spills and broken plates. Sally proposes getting her an ice cream cake instead, which they procure. However, while talking to Linus and Lucy on the street, Peppermint Patty finally has an outburst over constantly hearing about Mother's Day, startling Charlie Brown who loses his hold on the ice cream cake, causing it to land on Lucy and ruining her present. Peppermint Patty runs away in shame.
The constant talk of Mother's Day reminds Woodstock of his own mother, who he has not seen since he left the nest, so he and Snoopy set off on a harrowing journey to find her. They attempt to camp in the woods but are scared off by what they believe to be a wild beast. They eventually make it to the nest where he was born, but learn she has moved away, only having left a note.
Peppermint Patty bemoans how she feels left out of her friends' celebrating their mothers, knowing she will never have the same feeling. Marcie reassures her that her feelings are valid, but suggests that she does not need to copy everyone else to show her appreciation to her father: Peppermint Patty decides instead to use the day to just spend time with him, and thanks Marcie for her help.
Lucy finally makes an arts-and-craft card for her mother, but Linus suggests she include a message, showing his letter as an example. Lucy is impressed by his letter, so Linus proposes they combine their gifts. He and Lucy read the letter out loud to their mother at breakfast, while the rest of the gang celebrates Mother's Day in their way: "Pig-Pen" gives his mother a card and box of chocolates; Marcie makes cupcakes; Schroeder performs a composition; Franklin gives his mother a homemade card; Charlie Brown and Sally successfully prepare breakfast in bed; Woodstock, thankful for Snoopy's help in looking for his mother and taking care of him over the years, gifts him a flower to show his appreciation; and Peppermint Patty spends the day playing football with her dad.
In a pre-credits scene, it is revealed the "beast" that was chasing Snoopy and Woodstock was actually a group of bunnies, who happily eat the pair's supplies while repeating the sounds.
Voice cast
- Tyler Nathan as Charlie Brown
- Terry McGurrin as Snoopy
- Hattie Kragten as Sally Brown
- Rob Tinkler as Woodstock and Woodstock's Mom
- Lexi Perri as Peppermint Patty
- Isabella Leo as Lucy van Pelt
- Wyatt White as Linus van Pelt
- Holly Gorski as Marcie
- Caleb Bellavance as Franklin
- Natasha Nathan as Patty Swanson
- Charlie Boyle as Violet Gray
- Jacob Soley as "Pig-Pen"
- Maya Misaljevic as Frieda
- Matthew Mucci as Schroeder
Trivia
- This special was nominated for the Children's & Family Emmys Awards for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for an Animated Program. It lost out to Cat Burglar.
- In a meta-gag, Peppermint Patty is shown presumably talking to a grown-up, only for it to be revealed that Marcie is playing a trombone, a reference to the method of depicting adult dialogue in the Peanuts specials.
- Although none are depicted, Marcie's mention that some children have two mothers is the first acknowledgement of same-sex couples in the entire history of the Peanuts franchise.
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